AMAA on Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World

By Cal Biruk

This article is part of the series: Ask-Me-Almost-Anything (AMAA): Centering Student Engagement with Ethnographic Monographs

Questions developed by the members of CU Denver’s ANTH4600/5600, S2021: Kaylynn Aiona, Delilah Chavarria, Darcy Copeland, Keaton Green, Ari Jones, Caitlin Konchan, Chris Kuelling, Kuba Kwiecinski, Rosa Lawrence, Destinee Murray, Alexa Powell, Benin Rahma, George Sanchez, Emma Vittetoe, Renee Watson, and Abby Welch

Instructor’s note: In our era of “alternative facts,” and given the critical roles that data collection and …

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April 15, 2021

Lightning strikes, or how an object of global health is made

By Megan Vaughan

When we were children my mother always told us there was nothing to fear from thunderstorms. But it was hard not to notice that she did so whilst running around the house disconnecting every electrical appliance. She compared her “sensible” approach to the superstitious excesses of her own mother who, at the sound of rumbling thunder, would gather the cutlery …

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AMAA on Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World

Lightning strikes, or how an object of global health is made